The country justice: containing the practice, duty and power of the justices of the peace, as well in as out of their sessions

by: Dalton, Michael, d. 1648?; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL

Publication date: 1746

Topics: Justices of the peace

Publisher: In the Savoy [London] : Printed by H. Lintot (assignee of E. Sayer, Esq.) and sold by S. Birt ...

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Includes "And ... an appendix; being a compleat summary of all the acts of Parliament, shewing the various penalties of offences by statute, and the particular power of one ... or more justices, in their proceedings and determinations, under several distinct heads, in alphabetical order. With four tables ... And the precedents translated into English. Also addenda, containing the statutes of 16, 17, 18 & 19 Geo. II. with all the modern cases of authority published since the year 1742, down to the present time ..."

Includes index

Includes "A table of the general heads...": [112] pages between 494 and 495

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

Addenda on p. 495-508

ESTC

Also available on microfilm

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894